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Yep (and be pragmatic/emphatic, a lot of this stuff can seem obscure to non-techies). My partner/wife is a long-time iPhone fan. I never tried to convert her,

by mgbmtl 3y ago

Yep (and be pragmatic/emphatic, a lot of this stuff can seem obscure to non-techies). My partner/wife is a long-time iPhone fan. I never tried to convert her, but she is on the point of switching to Android because she can't use Firefox on iOS. It's completely absurd too - to discard a perfectly fine device otherwise, just because it cannot block ads, or at least, cannot run uBlock Origin (for blocking cookie-banners, social annoyances, etc).

judge2020 3y ago
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-private-safe-browser/id989804926 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-private-safe-browser/i... ? Or is it not "can't use Firefox on iOS" but "doesn't have x feature from Firefox on Desktop"?
- mgbmtl 3y ago
  Last time I checked, it was just a Safari webview, and missed a lot of features compared to Firefox on Android. Has that changed recently? Other nice thing of Firefox on Android: being able to listen to Youtube videos even when the screen is turned off. (I'm sure there are solutions, but many seemed sketchy or didn't work well)
  - judge2020 3y ago
    What are the features missing then? The main one I can see is edit PDFs directly[0], but I'd bet money that Mozilla wouldn't implement that on iOS anyways. FF can largely do exactly the same thing they do on Desktop to attract people: create a privacy-focused browser (if that's even what they're doing) and things like syncing your bookmarks, passwords, using Firefox VPN, and blocking ads. 0: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
    - Larrikin 3y ago
      No proper ad blocking. Firefox Privacy has some limited blocking but Cloudflare has rendered it useless and gets me into infinite captcha loops. Tailscale plus Adguard has finally brought sanity to all my mobile devices thankfully.
  - realityloop 3y ago
    You can play yt videos with screen off using vinegar if you pop the video out to pip view it will be able to keep playing when you turn the screen off. https://apps.apple.com/au/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229 https://apps.apple.com/au/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303...
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tbassetto 3y ago
How about installing an ad-blocker on her iPhone? Do you really believe that all iPhone users browse the web with ads?
36046293 3y ago
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1047223162 https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1047223162 Use whatever you want re: iOS or Android, but there are plenty of ad blockers on iOS.
guu 3y ago
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by mgbmtl 3y ago

judge2020 3y ago

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-private-safe-browser/id989804926 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-private-safe-browser/i... ? Or is it not "can't use Firefox on iOS" but "doesn't have x feature from Firefox on Desktop"?

mgbmtl 3y ago
Last time I checked, it was just a Safari webview, and missed a lot of features compared to Firefox on Android. Has that changed recently? Other nice thing of Firefox on Android: being able to listen to Youtube videos even when the screen is turned off. (I'm sure there are solutions, but many seemed sketchy or didn't work well)
- judge2020 3y ago
  What are the features missing then? The main one I can see is edit PDFs directly[0], but I'd bet money that Mozilla wouldn't implement that on iOS anyways. FF can largely do exactly the same thing they do on Desktop to attract people: create a privacy-focused browser (if that's even what they're doing) and things like syncing your bookmarks, passwords, using Firefox VPN, and blocking ads. 0: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
  - Larrikin 3y ago
    No proper ad blocking. Firefox Privacy has some limited blocking but Cloudflare has rendered it useless and gets me into infinite captcha loops. Tailscale plus Adguard has finally brought sanity to all my mobile devices thankfully.
- realityloop 3y ago
  You can play yt videos with screen off using vinegar if you pop the video out to pip view it will be able to keep playing when you turn the screen off. https://apps.apple.com/au/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229 https://apps.apple.com/au/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303...
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tbassetto 3y ago

How about installing an ad-blocker on her iPhone? Do you really believe that all iPhone users browse the web with ads?

36046293 3y ago

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1047223162 https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1047223162 Use whatever you want re: iOS or Android, but there are plenty of ad blockers on iOS.

guu 3y ago

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